What tools and applications are useful for planning your trip?

What tools and applications are useful for planning your trip?

Tools for preparing your tripSpending your vacation at the end of the world or in a foreign country generally requires an appropriate budget and a preparation time that can sometimes be long. There are many tools to prepare a trip. The use of these technological innovations will be of great help to you in this crucial step before your departure.

Algofly

Whether you go alone or accompanied, travel costs represent an important part of your travel budget, in particular plane tickets from France to the country or countries of destination. Algofly is a tool made available to you and intended to provide you with the cheapest rates for your air travel(s).

This is a site that uses an algorithm that searches and analyzes a database that includes more than 800 million airline ticket prices. It is in a way a comparator of price comparators. Its advantage is that it is totally free. Its mode of operation is simple: it sends an alert to your mailbox to invite you to buy your ticket when the price drops. According to its designers, Algofly saves around 30%, which considerably reduces your budget.

Wipolo

The evolution of the Internet now makes it possible to plan and prepare a trip with more precision, in particular by using tools such as Wipolo. Also available on mobile, it allows you to plan your trip down to the smallest detail using the reservations sent and saved on the portal. It is from this information that the stages of your trip are automatically created.

You can consult your information directly from a computer or a telephone, and even print it to have it always with you. The information available to you mainly concerns accommodation and activities on site, transport by plane or train, or even car rental. Wipolo allows you to save considerable time in the preparation of your trip, whether you are leaving for the Australian bush, for the seaside resort of Pukhet in Thailand or to marvel at the beauty of the Grand Canyon. It is the ideal tool for people who systematically book before their departure.

Tripomatic

Tripomatic offers you the possibility of preparing a trip by automatically creating your itinerary and its stages. You simply have to fill in the country and the cities you wish to visit as well as your centers of interest and the places you wish to discover on the spot. In a few clicks, you get the best possible organization to optimize your time, depending on whether you take a car, public transport or walk.

This tool provides you with many details on each step, in particular the description of the sites to visit with their contact details, the entrance price, the opening hours, … without forgetting the photos of each place which already allow you to have some an overview. Even if this tool is similar to Wipolo, it stands out for the rarity of manual processing and for its well-stocked library.

Packpoint

The clothes to pack for a weekend in the Canadian Far North are not the same as the outfits needed for your vacation in Ireland or the Greek islands. Packpoint is a free tool that helps you identify very quickly what you need to take with you in order to eliminate what is unnecessary and better prepare your suitcase. All you have to do is fill in the site with the dates of your trip and its reason (business or vacation), the time you plan to stay there and the activities you want to do. You can even remove or add items to the established clothing list as you wish.

 

 Travel advice

Knowing the realities of your destination country is one of the imperatives when preparing your trip abroad. You can download the “Advice to travelers” application on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to obtain all the practical information that will be useful to you on site. These include the contacts and contact details of French embassies and consulates, useful numbers, the state of health and the precautions to be taken in this regard, as well as various information on the level of security.

You will also find some advice on travel insurance and entry and exit paperwork. Similarly, the site informs you about the attitudes to adopt in the face of an unforeseen situation such as an attack, the loss of your passport or your luggage.

The success of a trip depends largely on the care you give to its preparation. Thanks to these tools, planning a trip becomes a real pleasure and allows you to save money and time that you can devote to other activities. By taking advantage of the advantages offered by these applications, you can anticipate and discover in advance the sites you will visit as well as the activities you can practice during your stay.